Registered Nurse (RN) Inpatient Wound Care

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Job Type:

Regular

Scheduled Hours:

32

Why You’ll Love Working with St. Elizabeth Healthcare

At St. Elizabeth Healthcare, every role supports our mission to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to the communities we serve. For more than 160 years, St. Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care across Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. We’re guided by our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve and by our values of excellence, integrity, compassion, and teamwork. Our associates are the heart of everything we do.

 

Benefits That Support You

We invest in you — personally and professionally.

Enjoy:

- Competitive pay and comprehensive health coverage within the first 30 days.

- Generous paid time off and flexible work schedules

- Retirement savings with employer match

- Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities

- Wellness, mental health, and recognition programs

- Career advancement through mentorship and internal mobility

Job Summary:

The best career is right here.

St. Elizabeth Healthcare is hiring a Registered Nurse for an Inpatient Wound Care Nurse position located at the Edgewood, Kentucky location.

Hours & Shift: Full-time, 32 hours weekly; 1st Shift.

Job Description:

The best career is right here.

Demonstrate respect, dignity, kindness and empathy in each encounter with all patients, families, visitors and other employees regardless of cultural background. Responsible for providing consultation and coordination of the care of patients requiring wound care assessment, management and treatment (Involves skin, wounds, ostomies, pressure sores, incontinence and other wound care arenas). Collaborates with nursing staff, medical staff and other health care providers in establishing and executing policies, procedures, and standards of care for wound care management patients.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education, Credentials, Licenses:

• Graduate from an accredited school of nursing.
• If eligible, must have a Compact (multi-state) License in their primary state of residence.
• Licensed to practice nursing in the state where work is being performed.
• BSN or currently enrolled in BSN program.
• Meets contact hour requirements for licensure, including all state-required courses.

Specialized Knowledge: 

• Basic knowledge in current skin, ostomy and wound care practices.
• Understanding of the organizational structures of the hospital, its policies and practices.
• Able to be self-directed and highly motivated.

Kind and Length of Experience: 

• Minimum requirements of 3 years current clinical experience in an acute care facility.
• Prior experience in skin, ostomy and would care clinical practice/management.

DESIRABLE

Education, Credentials, Licenses:

• MSN
• Certification as a wound, ostomy, continence nurse (WOCN).
• Graduate of Enterostomal Nursing Education Program.

Specialized Knowledge: 

• Advanced knowledge and experience in skin, ostomy and wound therapy and practices.
• Ability to interface wound care management into daily practices by staff.

Kind and Length of Experience: 

• Current experience as a wound care nurse or enterostomal therapist.

FLSA Status:

Non-Exempt

Right Career. Right Here. If you're looking for the right careers in healthcare, the right place to be is at St. Elizabeth. Join us, and you'll take pride in the level of care we offer our community.